What could be more exciting than the ultimate Big Ten Football Rival game between Michigan and Notre Dame?

Apparently, an interview during said game with Eminem who now prefers to be called Marshall Mathers.

Mathers has a new album coming out and he is from the state of Michigan – but why producers decided he would make good interview fodder for Brent Musberger during a college football game is beyond me. For those of you not familiar with the geography of our mitten state, 8 Mile Road may only be an hour drive from Ann Arbor but it couldn’t be farther away from it’s bucolic tree-lined streets.

The interview was awkward from the onset – despite Musberger’s obvious professionalism. Now, awkward interviews happen, and as a one-time television producer, I can understand that.

But when Musberger told Mathers to “stay right here” while they switched to calling the game (which is the reason everyone was watching after all, right?) I cringed and screamed out loud at the producer to cut the bleepin’ segment.

Apparently the Twittersphere went crazy last week over the discovery the snazzy souvenir cups the Lions sold at their opening day game – were actually from last year – replete with the 2012/2013 schedule.